| Re: Trouble with sending e-mail from simple php script [message #176550 is a reply to message #176515] |
Mon, 09 January 2012 13:27   |
C
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On Jan 9, 12:02 am, The Natural Philosopher <t...@invalid.invalid>
wrote:
> C wrote:
>> On Jan 8, 4:34 pm, The Natural Philosopher <t...@invalid.invalid>
>> wrote:
>>> M. Strobel wrote:
>>>> Am 08.01.2012 10:20, schrieb C:
>>>> > Even if the message were rejected, I would still see something in that
>>>> > frame, but I get only a blank frame. Client machine rejecting the
>>>> > message should not even be noticed by this PHP script, or would it?
>>>> You have to learn how to find and read the log files. Your script
>>>> will not show errors if it dies.
>>>> On Linux log files are only readable by root.
>>>> /Str.
>>> Probably the most common error when using mail() from within php on a
>>> shared host is to fail to use the -f function to pass a valid sender
>>> address to sendmail (or its analogue). Without that, the 'true' sender
>>> is likely to be 'your-login-n...@hosting-omain.com' which will fail most
>>> rudimentary validation and simply reject the mail.
>
>>> I ALWAYS use the -f to set the sender to something like
>>> 'webmas...@myvirtualdomson.com' and set up that virtual domain so that
>>> webmaster is a valid known target for emails.
>
>>> e.g.
>
>>> mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers, "-f webmas...@mydomain.com");
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>>> is far more likely to get through anti-relay security in the hosts
>>> mailer system.
>
>>> Start by testing the host mailer with the above line, so
>
>>> mail("m...@validmail.com","test message", "From:
>>> anot...@validmail.com\r\n", -f "webmas...@mydomain.com");
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>>> is where you should start.
>
>> I did that and got an error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected
>> T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING
>
> Then you typed it wrong
>
>>> If that fails to make it then you need to talk to the hosting company.
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>> I wrote the following test.php, uploaded it and tried it.
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> > <?php
>
> > mail("aaaa....@gmail.com","test message", "From:
> > postmas...@example.org\r\n", -f "postmas...@example.org");
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> > ?>
>
> did it work or not...?
>
No, it did not send me any mail (at least I did not receive any), and
resulted in a blank page (but perhaps that is expected since there are
no html or echo statements).
>
>
>> My earlier code works well on two other sites of mine which are
>> sitting on other shared servers.
>
> So the problem is in the setting of this shared servers mail, which is
> what I said..unless you have some other versions of php running.- Hide quoted text -
Should I try to circumvent the problem in some way? Can one write the
same thing in Javascript?
>
> - Show quoted text -
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